Hammer



(No Mom.)

F. H. GOLVIN. HAMMER.

No. 562,581, I Patented June 23, 1896. r

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED H. COLVIN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HAMMER.

QPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 562,581, dated June 23,1896. Application filed June 29, 1892. Serial No. 438,370. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED H. COLVIN, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of'Pennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hammers, which improvementis fully set forth in the following specification and accompanyingdrawings.

My invention relates to improvements in hammers; and it consists of theconstruction of the heads thereof, as hereinafter described, whereby thefaces of the same may be readily applied and secured thereto and removedtherefrom.

To this end the heads are made of separate parts, which are clampedtogether by means of a nut fitted on the boss of one of said parts, thehandle being secured in said boss.

It further consists in the combination and arrangement of parts setforth and claimed.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation. Fig. 2 represents an end viewthereof. Fig. 3 represents a longitudinal section thereof. Fig. 4represents an end view thereof. Figs. 5 and 6 represent other forms ofthe invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the head of a hammer, the sameconsisting of the sections B and O, the ends of which are provided withrecesses D, to receive the hammer-faces E. In the peripheral walls ofthe sections there are openings F to receive the handles F, which may beof wood or metal, as desired. In Fig. 3, the sectionB is provided with acentral boss H, which passes through the web F of the section (J, itbeing noticed that the handle is within the boss and the nut G is fittedon said boss and tightens against said section 0, thereby clamping thefaces E between the sections.

In Fig. 5, the handle is secured in the flanges F of the sections B O,the web F not being in contact with said handle, "and the sections areclamped by a nut G on said handle bearing against the section 0.

In Fig. 6, the threaded part of the handle projects beyond the section Band the nut G2 thereon bears against the said section.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A hammer-head consisting of two sections with openings in theirwalls, recesses in their ends, and webs on their inner peripheries, oneof said sections having a boss passing through the web of the othersection and a fastening nut on said boss tightening against one of saidsections, said parts being combined substantially as described.

2. A hammer-head consisting of two semicylindrical sections withopenings in their walls opposite each other and recesses in their ends,detachable faces in said recesses, a handle passing through saidopenings, and .a clamping-nut for said sections, said parts beingcombined substantially as described.

FRED H. COLVIN. Witnesses JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, A. P. JENNINGS.

